Melina Kritikopoulos is an 18-year-old aspiring writer and poet. She is the co-editor-in-chief and a staff writer for her school’s newspaper, where she has a book column and edits and produces the paper’s podcast. In her spare time, she enjoys writing short stories and poems, and she has been writing a novel since the summer of 2019 and a series of shorts since March of 2020. Her greatest writing inspirations are J.D. Salinger, James Baldwin, Pseudonymous Bosch, and Maya Angelou. In all her work, she hopes to inspire others and uplift the voices of the communities she is part of.